Why this score
engineered against fullnessConcentrated sugar, with little protein or fiber to slow it down; dense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.
Three routes to fullness — one is enough
What pulls it down
Per
- Calories
- 270
- Protein
- (5%)
- 3 g
- Fat
- (44%)
- 13 g
- Carbohydrates
- (51%)
- 34 g
- of which sugar
- 10 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 135 mg
Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.
Alternatives
McDonald'sHigher-scoring, from McDonald's own “Desserts & Shakes” in Canada.
Ingredients
Baked Apple Pie Pastry: Enriched wheat flour, Vegetable oil shortening (palm oil and modified palm oil, soy lecithin, natural butter flavour, beta carotene), Water, Sugar, Yeast, Salt, L-cysteine hydrochloride, ascorbic acid. Filling : Apples (apples, water, ascorbic acid, salt, citric acid), Sugars (glucose-fructose, sugar, dextrose, brown sugar), Water, Modified corn starch, Sorbitol, Salt, Natural flavour, Spices. Topping: Sugar, Spices..
Nutrition as published by McDonald's — check it yourself. Product photograph © McDonald's, shown to identify the item. The score measures satiety per calorie. It is not a virtue scale, and no food here is forbidden. How the score works.